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Conflict of interest:The authors declare no competing interests. Funding sources had no role in study design, data collection, results interpretation and manuscript writing.Author Contribution: AP, SS, NiD, SL and KJ collected specimens; AP and NeD diagnosed the species; AP, SS, NiD and NeD generated morphometric and genetic data; NeD performed genetic and morphometric analysis; AP and NeD wrote the manuscript with inputs from SL, SS, NiD and KJ. Abstract: Sphaerotheca pashchima, a new species of burrowing frog, is described from western India. It can be diagnosed from all its congeners based on a combination of characters including interorbital width less than upper eyelid width, snout to nostril distance less than half of eye diameter, nostril nearer to snout than to eye, internar...